#Afford

Kohol Shedrack wrote:A thread...The Naija MindsetI recall when I came to London in 2009. My dad was at Heathrow Airport to welcome me. He bought an Oyster card for me.
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is cities skylines supposed to make me think I need new glasses? ok fixed.apparently it loaded up defaulting to 1600x900, which isn't the resolution of my monitor, but it's doing
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Leaving aside the implications for what we know about the spread of #COVID19, which we'll get to in a second, THIS, simply as a story about management of data, is
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What is sampling in music? - a basic rundown You will have heard the word sampling thrown around a lot in music, probably especially since you started stanning the tannies.
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Lessons from #diliriş_ertuğrul:I have often seen questions like these with either excited Yes's or some excuse for why its boring, lengthy, not well made, etc. Apart from the usual arguments
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The DOJ's antitrust complaint against Google is out!Thread with some of my initial reactions as I go through it... Economies of scale are at the heart of this case:The pro-competitive
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Really interesting blog by @AtheneDonald on various aspects of education. Lots of important points raised. I'll discuss two: technician's contributions to innovation; and the status of technical work. (Thread.) @GatsbyEd
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The superiority of the sunnah in furnitureThere's many advantages to the sunnah in furniture, and with more people adopting foolish Western furniture and lifestyles all the time, it's important to
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we need to talk about how the war on cigarettes is builds on racism and classism and not just health issues.the ACLU just released a statement about Biden's plan to
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I’ve been traveling and not writing much these past two weeks. Some brief thoughts about the second phase of the war, Russia’s offensive to retake the Donbas, and implications. Thread.
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So I tried to lay out race and the Coronavirus to my students yesterday and figured it might be helpful for some people to hear. It's imperfect but here goes:
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Letters to our kids that I never wrote but should have......a thread Dear VidurEach time you cry watching a cartoon, because of what you think is something unfair, I hope
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Thread: Why are colleges being so bullish about an in-person fall semester? @rkelchen diagnosed some of the likely variables in this piece: https://chroni.cl/315BbtN But I've been wondering if institutional prestige may
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I gotta get something off my chest.When I entered UNO as a bright-eyed, fresh-faced, utterly clueless freshman, I placed directly into ENGL 1159, Honors Freshman Composition. On the first day,
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THREAD: Why is public approval of the government’s handling of coronavirus so strong?Despite facing substantial criticism about testing and PPE, the government is now even more popular than it was
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Starting a #THREAD of articles on how #doctors & health workers are criminalized by governments for doing their medical & humanitarian duty. I am no expert, please tag & add
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